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Players who take part in the camp will work under McNeely, who has coached in Texas at the 5A level for 18 years where he has won nine District titles and appeared in the regional tournament three times. He has also helped produce three High School All-Americans and has sent over 30 players to play basketball at Division I, II, and III levels.
McNeely spent seven years as an assistant coach at Southern Methodist University and the University of Houston while also serving as the gym director for the Derek Fisher Basketball Academy for the past three years. Over McNeely's career he has worked with many great college and NBA players.
"We're real lucky to have that opportunity," Spanish Springs coach Kyle Penney said. "He has a ton of experience when you look at his bio. It teaches a lot for the kids who are able to attend. It gives them exposure to different things that they do in Texas, where basketball is a whole lot more prestigious than it is here in Nevada, so to speak. It's a great opportunity for the kids who do want to be a part of it."
The High Intensity Hoop Clinic will focus on developing individual skill sets, with workouts centered around offensive and defensive footwork, one-on-one drills, the transition game, creating your own shot and having a positive attitude.
"They'll have some drills that they will do that they can take home," Penney said. "It's going to be high intensity based. It's not a 'baby-sit' type of camp. It's going to be a camp where you're expected to sweat and work hard and listen and make mistakes because that's how you get better.
"It's all about hard work and man-hours. The more hours you put in, the more success you're going to have. I'm a big believer that it's about people who will put in more time than other people. Those are the ones that give themselves a better shot to be successful."
The High Intensity camp at Spanish Springs High will be open to grades 7-12. There will be three sessions with the first on Friday, June 1 from 7-9 p.m. and the final two on Saturday, June 2 from 9-11 a.m. and 1-3 p.m. The cost per camper is $115 with limited spots available. Registration and payment can be sent to:
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- Position: Midfielder
- Age: 32
- Birth Date: Mar 4, 1982
- Birth Place: Ontario, California, USA
- Height: 5' 8" (1.73m)
- Weight: 71.67 kg
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One of U.S. soccer's gems, Donovan is also one of the most popular American players in the game. The all-time leader in both scoring and assists for the national team, the striker is also the fourth-youngest player to reach 100 caps for his country.
He began his professional career in Germany as he became the youngest American to sign with a foreign club when he signed for Bayer Leverkusen in February 1999 aged 16. After catching the eye at the 1999 Under-17 World Championships, where he picked up the Golden Ball award, he chose to move to Europe as he began to develop into the USA's most potent finisher.
However, Donovan's career stagnated at Leverkusen. He was not given much of a chance to shine and had trouble adjusting to the German culture, before returning to America on loan at the San Jose Earthquakes for a fee of $4 million for the 2001 season.
His career began to take off as he led the Earthquakes to the MLS championship in 2001 after they had been the worst team in the league the season before. Selected for the U.S. squad for the 2002 World Cup, Donovan became the poster boy for the American team. He helped the side reach the quarter-finals for the first time since 1930, with two important goals, and his popularity in America grew.
Showing his vision, skill and accuracy in front of goal, he impressed futher in 2003 and won the MLS championship again. Notching up personal awards in the form of the All-Star MVP and being named the U.S. soccer athlete of the year, he made himself a household name in the MLS.
His goalscoring prowess and incredible unselfishness made him a key team player and after a few seasons of success in America, Donovan decided to try his luck with Bayer Leverkusen again - signing for the club in June 2004. Once again, though, he struggled to make an impact. Starting just twice, he stated his intentions to return to the MLS and was picked up by the Los Angeles Galaxy, his hometown team.
Again he proved himself to be one of the best players in the league and became part of an elite group to have registered both 60 goals and 60 assists, but his attentions were still trained on Europe. Bayern Munich made their intentions clear and Donovan moved to the German giants on loan, but after just seven substitute appearances he returned home again.
His final loan spell to date was arguably his most successful as he joined Everton for the second half of the 2009-10 season, scoring two goals in 13 games. Helping the USA through to the second round of the World Cup, he may earn himself another shot at the big-time.
Strengths: His pace, ability to put the ball in the back of the net and tenacity on the pitch.
Weaknesses: Not consistent enough, he has failed to prove himself completely outside of the MLS.
Career high: Scoring the last minute winner against Algeria to seal the USA's progress from the group stages of the 2010 World Cup.
Career low: Bayern's decision not to renew his loan was yet another failure to establish himself in three different stints in the German Bundesliga.
Style: Fast, direct, an unselfish two-footed player who is always on the go.
Quote: "The reality is, when you're somewhat successful at what you do, there's always a group of people who aren't going to like you. I like to think I live my life the right way, and that's what's important. But I understand that people are passionate about soccer, and that's OK." Landon Donovan.
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Upcoming BB tourny for noob player!, Gonna play in a BB tournament but I never played BB bef
Upcoming BB tourny for noob player!, Gonna play in a BB tournament but I never played BB bef
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Well, as the title says, my local gameing club is organising a Bloodbowl league and I thought it would be fun to participate.
Thing is I have never played the popular fantasy football game before...
Luckely I'm a big 40k Orks collector and player so I had "some" models lying around
and I had already made myself a team last year wich comes in handy now!!!
It cosists of the following models:
-1 thrower -4 blitzers -4 black orcs -4 linemen -1 troll
I will try to make a good team using these models at hand, the league starts in februari so not much time to make a lot of additional models.
I read through some BB forums about team variations and concluded they are a plenty but with my lack of experience it's hard to judge the good, the bad and the worse!
So this is what I've got for now:
1 thrower
4 Black orcs
3 Blitzers
2 linemen
1 Goblin
3 re-rolls
This would mean making one goblin wich I can handle. We are playing ruleset 5 and that is as far as my BB intelligence reaches!
I thought about swapping the Black Orc and Blitzer amounts, or cutting the gobbo for another lineman and FF 4.
My main reason for playing is to have fun and learn the game! If I can win an occasional match, fine...but if I can have multiple amusing evenings playing BB without winning that's fine too! There will be some experienced players in the league so Championship is not an option!
Any thoughts, suggestions or comments?
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just starting to get back into bloodbowl myself, few coments since i normally play orc (or norse) i looked at ur team and thought thats good, ff of 5 is kinda pointless i tend not to put any money into it maybe upgrade a lineman to blitzer?, after thats sorted it looks good, depends what team ur playin against for tactics, but try wearing the opposition down, remember to always push out of bounds, and just play the odds, good luck mate, if ur wanting any further advice drop me a message
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From: Loveland, CO
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I would love to hear how your league worked out. I think that BB is about the best game out there. Of course I play 40k more but BB would be the one game I would keep if there were enough competitors and there could only be one.
My thought would have been to go with less FF and dump the goblin for another Blitzer. With the durability of the Orks you should have found that if you could let them score fast in the 1st half and then take the ball bash on them score. Get the ball back in the second half now hopefully outnumber your opponent and then score again slowly. I have found that against Skaven and Wood Elves I would just let them score as fast as possible unless I already had the lead. Let them score and then let me pound on them for 5 turns hopefully injuring or knocking out as many as I could.
Well let's hear how your team did and if your experience and mine were about the same.
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The New England Patriots will wear black-ribbon logos on their helmets on Sunday in honor of the 26 victims of Friday's Connecticut elementary school tragedy.
The Patriots also will light 26 white flares during a moment of silence before Sunday night's game against the San Francisco 49ers.
The Patriots see Newtown as part of their New England base, and had a direct connection with Friday's tragedy.
The Kraft family, which owns the Patriots, also owns a box company, Rand-Whitney, that has a factory less than one mile from Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Rand-Whitney's parking lot was used Friday as a meeting area for media members after the tragic shooting at the school, a Patriots official said this weekend.
The New York Giants also will honor the victims by having S.H.E.S. (Sandy Hook Elementary School) written on their helmets for Sunday's game against the Atlanta Falcons.
Giants coach Tom Coughlin also held a moment of silence for the victims at the team meeting at its Atlanta hotel on Saturday night, team sources told ESPN. Many players were visibly moved, the sources said. Most found out what happened in Newtown coming off the practice field on Friday.
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posted at 12/16/2012 8:28 AM EST
The nut job who tried to call the Jets out on this should be banned from this site.
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[/QUOTE]Classy move by the NFL!!
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posted at 12/16/2012 9:26 AM EST
Glad to hear it.
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posted at 12/16/2012 9:37 AM EST
OK. I'm gonna go against the grain here. I am NOT condoning what Lanza did to those innocent children and adults; killing people well before they've even had a chance to live out their lives.
I agree it's a nice gesture - but, it's a PR thing. Newtown is made up 95% white people. If this had happened in a "ghetto" district of Detroit, LA, or NY - I wonder if the atrocity would have been this publicized. Guess what? Many children in poor income neighborhoods are murdered every week. You don't see the NFL or any other entity wearing ribbons for THOSE innocent children, do we?
duplicate, sorry.
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[/QUOTE] Sorry, but if it was a mostly black elementary school, the public outcry would have been the same.
posted at 12/16/2012 9:57 AM EST
anonymis you should be ashamed of yourself for this post!! CHILDREN are CHILDREN regardless of race! You and your attitude here are part of the problem in America. To turn it around on you, do you think we will see your "Rev" Jesse Jackson or "Rev" Al Sharpton in CT talking about the violence?? Your a d!ck for even posting that above. Thank God that mass murder like this hasn't happened before either in a "white" neighborhood or a "ghetto distrcit."
posted at 12/16/2012 10:03 AM EST
[/QUOTE]so, where's all the public outcry for the minority children killed in mostly minority neigborhoods?
In addittion, neither of you really read what I wrote. It's clearly a PR strategy. IMO, it would mean a heck of a lot more if the NFL anonymously paid for all of the victims' funeral costs WITHOUT it being advertised in the media.
posted at 12/16/2012 10:38 AM EST
so, where's all the public outcry for the minority children killed in mostly minority neigborhoods?
In addittion, neither of you really read what I wrote. It's clearly a PR strategy. IMO, it would mean a heck of a lot more if the NFL anonymously paid for all of the victims' funeral costs WITHOUT it being advertised in the media.
[/QUOTE]1) Ever heard of Trayvon Martin? Of course you have. He is the young minority that was killed in Florida, whose death made International news! That was public outcry around the globe for ONE young minority killed. So stop with your whining lil racist rant.
2) How do you know the NFL hasnt offered to pay for funeral services "WITHOUT it being advertised in the media." If not publicized how do you know?? LOL Anonymis I never knew your were such a racist tool.
posted at 12/16/2012 11:00 AM EST
Sorry, but I think you're being naiive to think that it's not a PR move
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[/QUOTE]Oh, the irony! Ha ha!
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[/QUOTE]Of course if they did so anonymously, the public would never know, duh? Again, you missed the point. That sure doesn't make me racist for saying that it's a PR ploy. In addition, if you've actually read about the news for trayvon martin - why was it so publicized? Hmm, white adult male chases down minority juvenile and murders him vs. white adult male defends himself against violent minority juvenile. BTW, did the NFL wear a black ribbon in memory of Trayvon?
posted at 12/16/2012 11:29 AM EST
Get your facts straight Jack, George Zimmerman is not white he is hispanic. Take your sorry racist as s back to wherever you came from.
posted at 12/16/2012 11:35 AM EST
Get your facts straight Jack, Geoprge Zimmerman is not white he is hispanic. Take your sorry racist as s back to wherever you came from.
[/QUOTE]Zimmerman's father is white, his mother is hispanic.
You didn't answer my question. Did the NFL make statements on behalf of Trayvon, did they wear a ribbon on his behalf. Interesting that you don't want to say what the answer is.
posted at 12/16/2012 11:43 AM EST
you are ignorant anonymis! Of course the NFL didnt put a patch on their uniforms for Trayvon Martin (although President Obama did have a press conference specifically to adress this case). The NFL cant put a patch on uniforms for every death, or tragic loss. What makes this so unique is it is a MASS MURDER OF YOUNG CHILDREN. The last time our country got shook like this is probably 9/11. Although I suspect your racist behind to twist it somehow. Heres a tip for you. Stop whining and playing the race card all the time your not happy. You make your own way in the world. Tell Barak Obama a black man cant make it in America! This is my last response, I wont get in a battle of wits with an unarmed RACIST man.
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[/QUOTE]Again, you missed my entire point. If you add up all the minority children who are murdered in poor neighborhood, I'm guessing that the total number of children would EXCEED the number for this incident.
I'm thinking that you don't want to admit it's a PR ploy because it makes you feel good about yourself - like publicising YOUR support over a tragedy. So, you call me a racist cuz it makes you feel like a "good" guy.
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Quagmire3, don't let a tool bag hijeck the thread. It's a nice tribute by the Patriots. Don't respond to the foolishness anymore.


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Phil Gaimon of Bissell Pro Cycling recently signed a one-year contract with UCI WorldTour Team Garmin-Sharp for 2014. Gaimon won the Redlands Cycling Classic in 2012; this year he was runner-up at the Tour of the Gila. cyclingreporter caught up with the 27-year-old all-rounder in June to learn more about his rise to the top of the sport, doping, and why he wrote a book.
You'd been trying to get on Garmin for years. How did it finally happen?
My contact with Jonathan Vaughters most years was like, No, we're not interested now, but here's what you need to do next year for us to be interested. There was a good six years of that. Last year I was on track to doing it, but then when we weren't invited to any of the bigger races, Bissell gave me a nice offer at a time when I needed a nice offer to get the hell off of Kenda. So I wasn't about to hold out. I was worried about my career. I needed to jump ship from a shitty situation.
What was going on at Kenda?
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How close were you to signing with Garmin in 2012?
Vaughters wasn't exactly knocking down my door, so it would've been a begging situation. We were still in touch during the summer, and he never quite said no, but I just needed to sign and be done with it. There comes a time when the answer is no even if they don't say it, because it didn't look like I was quite ready. In the winter I got to know Tom Danielson and did a lot of training with him in January and February in Tucson. I think Vaughters' hesitation with me was that it was unclear that I was ready for Europe, because Europe is that much harder. And it's that difference. So his hesitation was, Does Phil really have the legs? And after a month training with Danielson, Tom told him, Yes, Phil has the legs. Then I came into the season swinging. I won but I really smashed it, and I think that helped a lot, to show that I was a notch above where I'd been the previous year, and that got us talking again. At some point I had enough of a body of work this year, even after a crash and coming back and still being pretty solid. I think Vaughters was impressed and finally made it happen.
You're 27. Did you or Garmin ever think you were too old to sign with a WorldTour team?
I think I was at the threshold where I was getting too old for someone to take the risk. The riders European teams are looking at in terms of Americans are the 18- to 22-year-olds they can foster, the Nate Brown types. I missed the boat on all that. I was in college and just learning to race a bike at that point. I had to prove that I was capable of something much harder than the racing here in the States. And I think I am better suited to European racing than I am to the American stuff. Like, I'm more comfortable at the Tour of California than I am at the Tour of the Gila. I find myself at the front more often when it's harder. There aren't a lot of races here with 45-minute climbs that sort things out. But in the past few years with races here, like Battenkill, when it's strung out and the race is flying, and I find myself leading onto the dirt sections, it's like, Huh. That's sort of like a glimpse that I feel is more like European stuff. I haven't raced there, but a bike race is a bike race. I think I can be ready for it.
How much is Garmin paying you?
Well, it's what I'm worth. It's a fair offer. I'm not buying any big houses anytime soon, but it's enough to do it right, and it's more than I'd get on any domestic team. Money at this point, after all I've been through, I don't need money. I just need to prove it to myself. You know, I'm not a young guy and I'm a risk to sign. That's a fact. I just want a chance to go over to Europe and do it right, and believe me, if I get the chance to do it right, I'll hit them up for more next year. But I was in no position to negotiate, and I'm no rider to demand a lot of money up front, because I've never raced a bike in Europe. Who the hell is going to pay me?
You've never raced in Europe?
No. That last time I was there I was 14. My dad's German and we went to visit his family, and that was before I really ever rode a bike. My dad was born there and came over to the States for graduate school. He's from a town in the north called Oldenburg. I think his family trade was hay gathering.
As for domestic-rider salaries, it always surprises me how little pros earn.
Yeah, it sucks. Only a few top riders here make any real money. A lot have to get by on $15,000 or so. That's why this sport is so tough. I wish I had any power over it but I don't. And it's nice to be able to leave that shitty world, where I had to watch that every weekend. It's a shame riding bikes and racing is so awesome. It'd be much easier to quit.
Talk more about the conversations you and Vaughters had leading up to your signing.
Most of our conversations before signing were really an extended interview, where he was trying to figure out whether the arc of my career was on the way up or on the way down, and me sort of explaining that I have to drive to every race. I was getting paid nothing the past few years. His question was, How did it take you so long to develop? I explained that I'd missed the national team. And I literally wrote a book about that, which I just finished. It's about the last six years or so and it's called Pro Cycling on $10 a Day. It's not official yet. I don't have a contract signed with the publisher as of today, but hopefully it will come out next spring. But it was funny, because Vaughters asked me that question and I said I could do 85,000 words on it. But through all that it was about him trying to understand who I was and whether I was the right fit and a smart move for him.
We also talked about what I needed to do to prepare as far as next season. It's great, because I have plenty of time. Some of what we did was look at my power at certain intensities or at certain levels of exertion, and we looked at which ones I'm good at and where I need to improve. In the lab the curve was, at one level, WorldTour, and, at the second level, "best in the world," and this is based on averages that their lab guy had done. He's tested Contador and tons of other dudes. And so they had "best in the world" and "normal WorldTour" guy, and I was directly between those two for everything. There were certain levels where it was down, certain others where it was up. But I know exactly where I need to train and improve for next year. It's actually refreshing how much science there is to it, sort of Moneyball if you think about it. That's what the testing is. They test your lactate threshold, the amount of power you can stand to do, and how much you weigh, and that tells you if you're good or if you suck.
Is it really as simple as that?
Different testers have different protocols. I know what I can do for, like, 20 minutes, and that was sort of my best curve on their chart. I can do between 430 and 450 watts for 20 minutes and I weigh 66 kilos [145 pounds], so whatever that divides to. But that's a point Vaughters made about the testing, that that stuff means more now that nobody's doping, or that fewer people are doping. That it used to be that a guy could test this in the lab and shoot a few needles and 40 watts just showed up. But now, and this is nice to hear from J.V. and Danielson, the way you test in the lab is about the way you do in the race, because that is what you're capable of. So from the inside, I can tell that pro cycling is cleaner, but from the outside I know a lot of people are still hesitant to accept that. But it's been that way the past few years. I've watched guys get slower. You can tell when you're next to them. There are still guys doing drugs, but it's not systematic. It's not like it used to be.
When Danielson reported on you to Vaughters, did he provide data files from a power meter or was it more anecdotal feedback?
Well, Tom knew the numbers because I was riding right next to him, so he knew what he was doing and could figure out the rest, even though he's about 15 pounds lighter than I am. I also did that lactate-threshold testing in the lab, and Vaughters can do the math. He saw at San Dimas that I won the uphill TT by 16 seconds over Acevedo, who's been winning big races.
Have you ever seen any doping?
I never saw any doping. I've raced dopers, I know that. There were definitely a few moments when I was racing in my first or second year and I'd be on a guy's wheel, like at a little race in Florida, and be like, Nope, that's not even humanly possible. There's no way someone is that much better than me. And sure enough, that guy would go positive a year later for growth hormone. There have been those moments. And there have been moments like that racing the NRC. The closest I had was a team doctor who tried to prescribe me asthma medication. It's legal but it's stupid. Like, No, I don't have asthma! So that was the culture I've had to deal with. No one ever said, Take this, Phil, you'll go better tomorrow. There's been zero of that. I don't think it's been around any team I've been on. I have a thousand percent faith in every teammate I've had as far as that stuff goes, at least that they're all presently clean. There have been a few guys I've had to race against where I'm like, This is bullshit. I wish you weren't here. But other than in the press and in the public, it's had very little effect on my career. The worst is the stigma of it. That's why I got the tattoo. I went to a doctor in Florida one year and he'd heard I was a pro cyclist. He closes the door and says, O.K, what are you on? I'm like, Oh, fuck this. He says, The door's closed and you can be honest with me. What is it? EPO? Steroids? I was like, Fuck. That's what we look like.
As a rider who's outspoken about racing clean, were you at all hesitant to sign with Garmin knowing that the team has several former dopers, including Vaughters himself?
I mean, not really. I'd thought of those demons a long time before. Becoming friends with Tom Danielson was interesting because I'd never known someone from that era all that well. I knew Frankie Andreu well. Frankie taught me a lot about all that, because he's a guy who did the same shit. He took needles from Lance Armstrong, but from working with him for three years, I know there's no better human being than Frankie Andreu. So good people can do good things and make mistakes, and I think that the sport as a whole has forgiven Frankie, rightly so. He's done more good than harm. It has forgiven Vaughters for the same. I think I'd say the exact opposite as far as was I hesitant to ride for him. Vaughters was the first to figure out, You have to be clean if you want sponsors. There was a period when teams were going away left and right and Vaughters was like, Here's my clean team. And here's why it's important and our biggest focus. And within a year, the teams, the ones that survived anyway, they stole that model. They looked at it as a business, and that was the direction things were going. It proved successful. He brought the sport back from that precipice. There are still guys doing drugs, but it's not systematic. It's not like it used to be. And I think watching that from the outside, well, there might not even be a pro cycling if not for that.
As far as Danielson and Vande Velde and Zabriskie, I think when they went to Garmin it was a risk. When Vaughters went to Tom and said, Look, this is gonna be a clean team, that was unheard of. If you look at it from Tom's perspective, it was a risk for his career. He's on Discovery. He's making a ton of money. And he's thinking, If I go to this clean team, I won't get a result. And if the team goes away, and it doesn't work, then I'm out of a job. Those guys had to gamble to make that leap. That's something they deserve credit for. And I think, as with Frankie, Tom's helping me out is sort of a way he's trying to make amends. You talk to the guy and you know he's not a bad person. He just hasn't had the time yet to go the route of giving back. But in his work with me, Tom went very far out of his way, not just to ride with me or help me get on the team, but to teach me a lot about training. He's got some of the best resources in the world, with great coaches and physiologists, and he because he knows his shit. My training has been entirely different since I started talking to him. But I think I'm sort of a project in the "good" category for Tom, and I think that should be considered when people judge. A lot of people are like, Oh, you're going to hang out with these dopers. It's like, No, this guy's done a lot for me. And I think he'll continue to, and all those guys on Garmin, and Vaughters, will continue to make positive strides in the sport, and people will look at the body of their work as you would Frankie's or Jonathan's.
So will you be racing mostly in Europe?
I don't know yet as we haven't gotten into a schedule. The first I'd heard about my schedule was on VeloNews saying I'd probably do some of the Ardennes classics. Which I like, because I'm good at getting in shape for the earlier stuff. I'm guessing he'll try me out in a stage race or two. California makes sense since I'm American. I'm guessing I'll be based in Spain, because that's convenient for the races that are the hardest. Then I could see coming back here for blocks. I know a lot of guys come back for the California-nationals block, go back to Europe, then come back here for Utah and Colorado. That's sort of what I'm guessing, but I'm open to doing whatever. I am hoping to do more in Europe than the U.S., since I've done the stuff here.
What about the rest of this season with Bissell?
I have a little break now, then I'll do Cascade, Utah, and Colorado. Those will be the big ones for me. The team is invited to Alberta but I'm not sure if they'll want me for that one. I hope I get to, but right now I'm focusing on those big three. I know I can do well in those. I've got a vendetta with Cascade, then Utah and Colorado are good for me too.
I botched it last year. I should've won it and I didn't, for a couple reasons. I finished fourth overall. The first day I attacked on the climb at the end and had everyone dropped. I had Mancebo cracked. He was chasing me and he blew up. Then Joe Dombrowski came across and for some reason he wouldn't work with me. And I should have just dragged him and pulled him to the line. But instead I looked up, because I forgot I was racing for the GC and I'm thinking about winning the stage. And I didn't want to drag Dombrowski to a free stage. We cat and moused and Mancebo came back with a group of six or seven dudes, and of course he won the stage because Mancebo can do shit like that. I lost time that day and had a shitty time trial. But that's something I've worked on this year. Last year I think I was 30th or 40th at Gila in the TT and this year I was eighth. So I've made improvements there and I have more maturity as a bike racer. With the work I've been doing I think I can go back to Cascade and not mess it up this time.
What do you make of Dombrowski, who's seen as the bright future of American cycling?
I know him reasonably well and we've exchanged some emails. During one of my shitty years on Kenda I was living in Baltimore with a girlfriend, and he grew up near there, so I did some local races with him, when he was first getting good. He was all the talk and riding on Livestrong then. Everyone was like, This guy's gonna be good. But I'd have moments where I'd lap this guy in a crit, like, He sucks. Then I'd have moments like, Ouch. That guy's gonna be all right. Joe's having the career that I didn't quite have the opportunity for, having started a little too late. They didn't have those development teams when I started, so yeah, it's nice to watch him. It's a bright future and he gets to have these opportunities and gets to be over in Europe. He's a guy who'll never see a needle in his career. I know his coach, Jeremiah Bishop, pretty well. We've talked about all that stuff. It's a zero factor in his life, and that's a beautiful thing, if you know your history of the sport.
So why did you write a book?
The idea was, there are all these books written, like Hamilton's book and this and that. There's bullshit stories, like Lance's, like, How I won the Tour, except for all the needles. You just throw all those away. Then there's these tell-all bullshit stories where Hamilton gets to cash in on his crimes that he's already made millions off of. So my idea was sort of an anti-tell-all. What's great about pro cycling is this world that I experienced in domestic cycling, where I never saw any doping. I never had to make that decision. And it's a beautiful thing because people do it because it's awesome. Because there isn't any money in it. Because there's not that much at stake. No one's famous. No one's rich. It's kind of this great, pure little world. And what it's taught me as an athlete and a human being. How I've grown and how hard it is but why it is worth it. And Vaughters gave me an awesome ending. And that's what closed the deal with VeloPress as well. I'd had this book that I'd been working on for years, and it didn't really have much of an arc because there was no ending. But I got that nailed down now. I basically wrote it last year when Kenda ran out of money, around June. I was thinking, Well, shit. I'm not going to sit on my ass for six months and do nothing. I just sat there and wrote. I wrote this massive mess of stuff. The VeloPress guy was like, You need to cut it in half. I think it was 130,000 words. I got it down to 85,000 and got the ending with Garmin in there. So now it's coherent and not 500 pages.
When you're not writing, what do you like to read?
Well, I thought I'd write fiction. That was my goal when I majored in English. I'd first told my parents I'd go to law school because they wouldn't let me major in English otherwise. I read a ton of fiction after I graduated. I made a list of books I wanted to read that I thought would be applicable, and I figured after that I'd start writing. I realized I have a book about bike racing in me. So I worked through the 100 best novels according to the Modern Library. I read those. Now I'm doing the same with nonfiction, just because I enjoyed the other list so much.
Do you follow the Tour?
The last time I watched every stage of the Tour de France and gave a shit was when Floyd Landis won and I was too young to know what was going on. My teammates and I were all sitting around the house that summer in Pennsylvania and we were so inspired by Floyd that after he won that stage we all went for a ride and beat the shit out of each other. And then three weeks later we hated ourselves and we hated Floyd. Like, What the fuck are we doing? So since then it's been hard to watch. It was a different sport for a while there. It didn't seem like the same thing. It went from there to I can't watch it because I'll never be there. That was hard too. I have a lot of trouble watching races I can't be in. Redlands this year was the biggest torture that I've ever experienced, watching Mancebo win that race and knowing I could chase him down. I couldn't watch it because I wanted to be in it. But now I know guys who will be in the Tour, future teammates. I need to start knowing who's who. I'll be watching to see if my friends do well. It's also homework at this point. I need to know what guys look like from behind and as a team.
Website: Phil the Thrill // Twitter: @philgaimon
Interview, photo by Daniel McMahon // Twitter: @cyclingreporter
UPDATE: Jan. 20, 2014. Gaimon wins his first race with Garmin-Sharp in Argentina on stage 1 of the Tour de San Luis.


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In 1979, The Clash were experiencing some pressure. Whether they wanted it or not, punk rock had become their responsibility. In New York, the Ramones had come up with the musical idea of reducing rock to three chords, doubling the volume, and accelerating songs until they sounded like Morse code. In London, the Sex Pistols had turned disgust into an ideology and made punk a historical moment, inspiring teen-agers across England to start bands. But by March of 1979 the Ramones had become more interested in being themselves than in changing the world, the Sex Pistols had disbanded, and The Clash, feeling burned out, had fired the manager who helped put the band together, in 1976. Yet they still owed CBS a record.
The Clash were able to fit more music and faith through the keyhole of punk than anyone else. Their début album, "The Clash," was a brick in flight, fourteen songs, half of them under two minutes long. The lyrics talk about the riots the band members want to start, the American imperialism they want to stop, and England's general lack of "career opportunities." It is an act of political resistance and pure pleasure. Their second album, "Give 'Em Enough Rope," was criticized for having an allegedly American sheen, but you'd have trouble hearing that now. The music is hard and echoey, barking but sweetly melodic. Actually, no—the hierarchy is more specific than that. Someone is singing sweetly way in the back, behind the loud guitars, and there's a very loud singer in the front who sounds like he's going to die if he doesn't get to sing right now. The one in the back is Mick Jones, the guitarist, who wrote most of The Clash's music, and the one in the front is Joe Strummer, who wrote and sang most of the lyrics, if singing is the right word. Strummer delivered words as if there were no such things as amplification and he would have been willing to run around town singing through a tube if he had to.
Strummer's moral authority, coupled with Jones's ability to synthesize decades of rock music without seeming too clever, made people care about The Clash, personally, intensely, and totally. When the band, not yet a year old, signed with CBS in 1977, the London fanzine writer Mark Perry said, "Punk died the day The Clash signed to CBS." Perry was only taking the band as seriously as they took themselves. Strummer, especially, believed that punk should be available to all, and felt inherently hostile to authority. Paradoxically, it was the corporate paymaster CBS that eventually ran ads for The Clash with the tagline "The only band that matters." In March of 1979, everyone, including The Clash, knew that the hype might be more than hype. But how could a rock band possibly live up to those expectations?
By releasing "London Calling," sixty-five minutes of rock music that never goes wrong. Without self-importance, the music covers huge amounts of ground. The stories hang together with the weight of commandments and the serendipitous grace of a pile of empty bottles. Montgomery Clift becomes a folk hero ("The Right Profile"), the myth of Stagger Lee is resurrected for a new audience ("Wrong 'Em, Boyo"), and London burns. Nothing sounds forced or insincere, not the breezy cover of an obscure English rockabilly song ("Brand New Cadillac") or fantasies of being a Jamaican bad boy ("Revolution Rock"). Hyperbole itself cannot diminish this record. Each of us is invincible when it's playing.
Now reissued in a new boxed set, "London Calling" comes with a bonus CD of rehearsals and a DVD documentary about the making of the album and original promo clips. This generosity would have pleased Strummer, who died in 2002, but he likely would have been less thrilled that the set lists for $29.98. When the album was originally released, as a two-LP set, the band felt that their records had to be priced for punks and insisted that CBS sell it for $9.98.
The documentary and the rough rehearsal demos make the same point: The Clash worked fiendishly hard to be magical. In an on-camera interview, Strummer says, "For some reason, we weren't night-clubbing people. All I can remember is writing and rehearsing and recording. A real intensity of effort." The rehearsals are evidence that the songs on "London Calling" were almost entirely worked out before the record's producer, Guy Stevens, was even hired. The only remaining task was to record the music. How Stevens, who died of an overdose of an anti-alcohol medication two years later, helped do this is unclear; thanks to this DVD, history will remember him as the guy who threw chairs and swung ladders about while The Clash recorded.
On "London Calling," Strummer remakes his major points: the police are on the wrong side, wage labor will crush your soul, and sometimes people need to destroy property to be heard. His sense of righteousness is enhanced by the album's sequencing, which feels Biblically logical and begins with one of the best opening songs of any record ever, the title track. The song starts cold. Two guitar chords ring on the downbeats, locked in step with the drums, marching forward with no dynamic variation. A second guitar introduces difference, coming toward us like an ambulance Dopplering into range. The bass guitar, sounding like someone's voice, heralds everybody over the hill and into the song. If you can listen to it without getting a chilly burst of immortality, there is a layer between you and the world. Joe Strummer simultaneously watches the riots and sloughs off his role as de-facto punk president: "London calling, now don't look to us / All that phony Beatlemania has bitten the dust / London calling, see we ain't got no swing / 'Cept for the ring of that truncheon thing." The chorus forms a keystone for the whole album: "A nuclear error, but I have no fear / London is drowning and I, I live by the river." The Clash are laughing at Margaret Thatcher and will be dancing long after the police have come and gone.


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Sophomore Sin Hye Won (Springfield, Va./West Springfield) paced four Dukes in the consolation finals of the 200-yard individual medley. She timed a 2:09.59 to claim 11th, while senior Andrea Criscuolo (Point Pleasant, N.J./Point Pleasant) was right behind her in 12th (2:09.69). Junior Shannon Dubay (South Windsor, Conn./South Windsor) took 13th (2:10.23) and freshman Ashley Clark (Manassas, Va./Osbourn Park) came in 16th (2:12.82).
In addition to Gingher's performance in the 50 free, senior Caroline Burns (Severna Park, Md./Severn School) claimed 15th (24.46) and freshman Carli Molano (Centreville, Va./Westfield) took 16th (24.57).
The 200-yard freestyle relay team of Holmgaard, Dubay, Burns and Gingher highlighted the relay events for the Dukes. It finished third in a time of 1:34.66, just 0.37 back of event winner Pittsburgh. Madison finished seventh in the 400-yard medley relay. The team of Won, Criscuolo, Czulada and freshman Kacy Edsall (Roanoke, Va./William Byrd) timed a 3:51.71.
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I've always wished I talked a little bit less, sometimes a lot less. There's something masculine and right about a man of few words. And given my propensity to self-disclose and/or take another person's inventory I'm pretty sure I'd be a better man if I talked less and listened more.
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Ola Ray, the female lead in his iconic 1983 "Thriller" video, still can't forget the experience of working with him.
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Ray -- now 51 and living in Sacramento, Calif., with her teenage daughter -- landed the gig after Flashdance actress Jennifer Beals turned it down. She almost didn't get it after video director John Landis learned she had posed in a 1980 Playboy centerfold. But Jackson didn't seem to mind her racy past. "He seemed taken by the fact that I was a Playboy model," Ray told the Sunday Mirror.
The 13-minute horror short -- which the Guinness Book of World Records calls the most successful music video of all time, selling more than 9 million copies -- depicts the two on a date. It takes a very dark turn when the singer transforms into a werewolf.
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Though the two flirted and shared some private time in his trailer on the set, she said they were never intimate because Jackson had eyes for someone else.
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She and Jackson remained friends after making the video. Jackson even flew her to Germany to accept an award for "Thriller" — which she later got to keep.
"He wanted to send someone else to come pick it up [from me], but I told him, 'No. If you don't come pick it up yourself, then you're not going to get it,'" said Ray, who went on to land small roles in Beverly Hills Cop II, Gimme A Break! and Cheers. "He didn't come get it, so he called and told me it was mine. I could keep it."
The two had some drama: In 2009, a month before he died, she sued his estate for unpaid royalties (they ended up reaching a settlement in May 2012).
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New Jersey voters overwhelming approved the borrowing, with nearly 63 percent voting "yes" on Question 1 on Tuesday's ballot, according to unofficial tallies from the state Division of Elections.
The measure passed in all of the state's counties, handily in most, with the help of a significant push from a bipartisan coalition that raised $1.9 million — mostly from unions and businesses — to promote the bond.
"It was hard to ignore the message that this was a good investment and not just more spending," said Bill Hildebrand, spokesman for the Building Our Future coalition.
The group bought airtime on radio and cable television — including a spot featuring Eric LaGrand, the Rutgers football player who was paralyzed making a tackle in 2010 and has become a beloved figure in the state. It enlisted college presidents and politicians, including former Gov. Tom Kean, to pitch the bond to editorial boards at local newspapers.
The coalition also targeted mailings to democratic households and suburban women, two groups it believed would support the initiative, Hildebrand said. And it organized rallies at college campuses and urged students to vote for the bond.
Some of the rallies and get out the vote efforts were derailed by superstorm Sandy, but it turned out the measure didn't need the last-minute push.
Voters seemed to put aside concerns that the state was already too much in debt in supporting the measure. In all, nearly 1.4 million voted "yes" for the bond versus just under 822,000 voting "no."
The bond is the first statewide capital funding for higher education since 1988. In the interim, colleges and universities have gone into significant debt to finance building projects as enrollment boomed. Those costs have been borne by the students, who pay tuition, while the bond will be financed by the state's taxpayers.
Public, private colleges
The bond will fund projects at 66 schools, both public and private, and schools will pay 25 percent of the cost. The projects cannot include student centers or dormitories.
Kathleen Waldron, president of William Paterson University, said the college will likely rely on fundraising to pay its share of the cost.
"What we won't do is raise tuition for facilities," she said. "That would be counterproductive and against the intent of the bond issue."
William Paterson hopes to use the money for a new academic building on the Wayne campus to house nursing and public health programs. The project would cost between $30 million and $40 million, Waldron said.
School officials also want to renovate aging buildings on campus, but it is uncertain whether there will be enough money to do so.
William Paterson has to share a pot of $247.5 million with at least six other state colleges and universities.
The bond provides $300 million to be split among Rutgers, Rowan and the New Jersey Institute of Technology; $150 million would go to county colleges and $52.5 million would head to private institutions.
The totals are far less than school officials estimate they need, but supporters feared that a costlier bond would go down to defeat.
The secretary of higher education will decide which projects get the go-ahead. Most schools have a backlog of projects, and officials say the bond money will provide a jump-start.